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Mayor Eric Adams wants to recreate the department’s plainclothes anti-crime unit, which recovered illegal guns but was responsible for a number of fatal shootings.
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“My son was sick. He had a mental disease. He didn’t deserve to be killed like an animal.”
The killing of Eudes Pierre, 26, underscores the need for alternatives to having the police respond to mental health episodes, activists say.
This summer, the city launched a pilot program that enables 911 operators to dispatch teams led by social workers instead of police. But cops are still fielding 80% of the mental health calls.